2,278 Customer Reviews over 57 pages
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- Bromley
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2018-05-08
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The broadband speed is very bad, I can't watch anything all day long.
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- Location
- Bromley
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2016-04-29
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I had higher expectations from sky it seems don't can't reach it. The wifi strength is poor. If this carries on when my contract ends I'm going to have to change broadband.
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- Location
- Bromley
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2019-09-12
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Sky like to take your money for absolutely nothing.
The broadband is patchy and not very strong.
Their communication is shocking.
They bill in advance, so when I cancelled I gave 28 days notice before the next bill to be sure they wouldn't take any more money from me.
Instead they billed me double for the month in which they were providing no services at all only to refund it a month later plus the £13 I was owed from unused services.
Utterly pointless
When trying to solve the problem Adam and Dawn from customer services were also useless the mere repeated lines of 'can't do that'.
Never use this service.
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- Location
- Bromley
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2017-08-03
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My experience with SKY is consistently bad. The service has become progressively poor. I've had SKY broadband since 2012 and the service just seems to get worse and worse. They advertise that the speed is up to 17Mbps. I am scratching barely 2Mbps. A recent speed checked confirmed that my speed is 93% slower than what it should be. The exceptionally poor service began in March 2017. I contacted them and they said they would send me a new router. They made no mention that even though I've consistently paid for the service for 5 years without hiccup and the fault was on their part, that they would charge me for a new router. I've only discovered on 3rd August 2017 that they indeed charged me for something that was SKY's fault. Of course a new router didn't sort the problems out, namely the pedestrian broadband speed and a very poor phone line. This came to a head in May where I lost phone and broadband service for a week. Again, despite the fault with the service lay with SKY, they again in a very underhand manner made it a condition of sending an engineer round that I enter into a new contract with them, even though I was paying them for what I thought was pursuant to an existing contract.
I have tried to contact their customer service team by phone and was left hanging for nearly 40 mins without an agent answering. Quite frankly, SKY's level of customer service is quite appalling. I am sick and tired of their surreptitious and disgusting practices and their underhand tactics in extorting money out of their loyal customers. I am on the verge of getting rid of them and going with an alternative provider. I am a very dissatisfied customer.
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- Bromsgrove
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2016-04-18
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- Bromsgrove
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2018-02-28
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Highly not recommended
Unfortunately Sky have lost the ability to provide any sort of customer service
My high Speed fibre broadband has been down now for a week and I cannot get through to Sky dispite numerous phone calls
Openreach have confirmed there is a local cable fault and Sky won't apply any assistance to get it resolved.
Avoid, Avoid and Avoid
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- broseley
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2023-08-09
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I've been with sky for too long.
No reward for loyalty.
VERY expensive for existing customers.
No support.
Unreliable connection.
Time to move!
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- bungay
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2010-01-25
- Comments
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we have the combined sky tv and internet and paying £40 per months and getting not even 1mb download speed
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- Buntingford
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2021-01-07
- Comments
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Review based on ADSL connection and not fibre as not in the area.
Impossible to use reliably as drops out connection regularly
Diabolical speed any more than two devices and it’s like a 56k dial-up connection.
Easier to contact an MI5 agent than speak to a Sky customer service agent.
Have given this feedback direct to Sky and nothing from them not even an acknowledgment. Awful money grabbing company.
Can’t wait for my contract to end and be out of this misery.
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- Location
- Burgess Hill
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2017-05-04
- Comments
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Our whole entire contract with them the broadband has never given us what we should be getting. Contact center never answers the phones and then they do all they do is read a troubleshoot sheet or just disconnect you if they can't solve the issue. Having to phone them every month to to try and sort things out. Nothing gets sorted! Awful company, awful service. I recommend either BT or Virgin. Don't waste your time or your money here!
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- Location
- Burridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2017-09-21
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A comprehensively shambolic experience. Sky Broadband is a complete and utter waste of money. For over 5 years now the company have failed to provide the advertised speeds or reliability it claims to offer. Instead of fixing the issues, they offer an upgraded, and more expensive, package which again failed to provide even a basic internet connection for the most part. Even with SkyFibre I am unable, even to watch YouTube at the best of times and I can draw no other conclusion but that the company straight up lies about my Fibre connection. Being with sky has been a torturous, unpleasant, aggravating experience which I can finally rid myself of this month by moving house. There are likely faster internet connections in the wilds of Russian Siberia than the speeds provided by Sky in my very urban, non rural place of residence. The half life of fundamental particles such as the proton have seemingly quicker decays than the download speeds when Sky is your ISP, and boy would it be more fun to watch the entire decay process for 10^32 years, than it is to have Sky internet. I would not wish this Service upon anyone. 0/10
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- Location
- burton
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2016-07-10
- Comments
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connection is crap, my 3G is quicker, wifi connection keeps cutting out so paying loads on data, don't bother, even after all these negative comments sky have done jack all to rectify problem, never again
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- Bury
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2017-03-17
- Comments
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After three years of poor to average service we decided two weeks ago to leave sky for Now TV and we cancelled the whole lot (out of contract). We then discovered that Now TV broadband is not yet available here so we called Sky back to arrange to keep broadband, no problem... We thought.
Last Sunday the broadband went off. We phoned Sky and they said that they would call us back on Wednesday to see if we still wanted to keep the broadband. Nobody called so we called them to tell them to forget it and we signed up with BT Broadband. Just received a letter today from Sky demanding early cancellation fees, even though Sky cancelled the broadband and failed to call us back as promised. The funniest thing has been realising that my gifgaff mobile broadband is faster than Sky's home broadband lmao. Avoid Avoid Avoid!
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- Bury
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2016-07-19
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56k dial up by freeserve in 1998 was faster than sky broadband. Worst Internet service provider in the world . Forever dropping connection, can't play any online games. Youtube takes 3 years to load a 4 second clip. Anyone thinking of going to sky for broadband, think again. Absolutely piss poor . Spoke to quite a few friends who have sky and they all agree. Please stay away from this stone age Internet.
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- Bury St Edmunds
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2017-08-10
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I don't usually leave reviews, but sky have a lot of bad reviews on here. I signed up to sky fibre with a new sky Q hub, I had the old hub and the speeds were very slow, 16mbps, after I'd complained a few times they sent me out the new hub and I'm now getting speeds of 37mbps, most of the time, there upto speed is 38mbps so I'm a very happy customer. Yesterday I had to get in touch with sky as my internet had stopped working, they arranged for an openreach engineer to come out today. He arrived this morning and the problem was, I'd been disconnected at the cabinet down the road, ( nothing to do with sky). It's up and working now.
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- BURY ST. EDMUNDS
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2017-11-27
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Awful, I would not recommend sky boradband to anyone. I'm sat here with my dad and his internet is supposed to be 30 mbps, at the moment it is 0.6mbps. He has been sat on the phone all morning to try and speak to someone and the award winning customer services have hung up on him 3 times already! That is definitely not customer first! It has been like this for a while, and he insists he was in touch last week about this, but still no change. Taking advantage of an elderly gentleman, and literally non existant customer service, this is not the kind of company I want to pay. It is turning into a joke - at least its not as bad as sky broadband LOL! It really is very bad, I would recommend anything other than sky broadband.
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- Byfleet
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2021-04-28
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Absolutely vile internet connection. Drops out many many times througout the day. Evening is the worst when i imagine many people want to use the internet to stream. Once my contract ends im going back to virgin, never had internet issues with them.
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- Byfleet
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2020-08-14
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Awful reliability. Connection constantly drops. Virgin never gave me issues but they had poor channel selection for the price of a broadband and tv package. And Virgin creep up prices all the time. So tried Sky. Sky TV is great bu their broadband sucks.
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- caernarfon
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2015-06-28
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Been with sky Narrowband for 3 months now after switching from EE. What a mistake, don't get me wrong, EE has the worst customer service ever (all Bangladeshi) but at least their speeds are good.
If I watch a youtube video, I tend to spend more time watching the dreaded wheel go round and round and round, it's pathetic. And Ebay is just as bad, I can't get the pics to enlarge cause the speed is just so sloooooooooow .
Sky Narrowband is what it should be called, I'll be looking to get out of the remaining months even if I have to pay out the contract.
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- Calne
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2015-12-29
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Honestly this wifi is utter rubbish in every category possible, The wifi randomly disconnects, It cannot handle more than a couple of people without disconnecting and the customer support is crap. If I'm on a console or laptop I have to have it in the same room as the router for it not to lag or have it plugged in via Ethernet.
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- Camberely
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2016-04-07
- Comments
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We had a day of internet on and off and they said it was probably a connection in our house, the next day every thing working again and speed raise to 8mb which was great, we noticed the speed dropping and when it got to 6.2mb we call to ask why. Sky made a few remote control adjustment and it went to 9.8mb which is even better, over the next week I took 52 reading every day and guess what back to 6.6mb. So Sky have the ability to raise our internet speed to 9.8mb when questioned and allow or lower it when they think we are not looking. Not good enough Sky.
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- Camberley
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2010-05-13
- Comments
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Good speed and reliability but pray you never need to get hold of customer service...
Been with them 2 years but ticked off that new customers are getting better deals, so I might change.
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2015-10-02
- Comments
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Very poor but cost loads
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2015-09-17
- Comments
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17th September 2015 – NIGHTMARE- HORRIBLE SERVICE- DO NOT GET SKY BROADBAND
My flatmate and I have been Sky customers for over a year. One month before leaving our flat, my flatmate called Sky to inform them that we would be leaving on the 12th of October and would like to cancel our account on that date. The discussion lasted an hour and we were told that this would take effect on the date we had advised. This morning (17th September – weeks ahead of the cancellation date) I realised that my Internet had stopped working, upon calling Sky I was informed that my account had been cancelled and that there is a glitch in their system by which they automatically cancel the account once they are called. The sales person apologised and admitted that someone had complained about this just the other week and that Sky should have informed my flatmate that he should ring to cancel our account two weeks before leaving and one month ahead of the leaving date (It seems being organised is a problem for Sky). Admittedly I was furious but under the impression that Sky would admit their mistake and turn my Wi-Fi back on, however to my disgust, I was told it would take TWO WEEKS for the account and therefore Internet to be back up. I would be without my Sky Internet, landline and TV for two weeks. I was fuming over the phone and asked to speak to the manager. I asked Sky to somehow fast-track this process as this situation was ridiculous, however I was told by both, the person on the phone and the manager (who had spoken to multiple Sky departments) that there was nothing that could be done in terms of fast-tracking the two weeks process. Upon asking for some sort of compensation as they had already billed us for the month of September, I was told no compensation could be given. I have ultimately reduced to buying Wi-Fi from a different service provider that I will have to pay for for the remainder of my stay at the flat.
I would encourage all of you to think twice before signing on with Sky. The least you would expect as a loyal customer is to get some form of compensation other than a sorry for screwing up, unfortunately in Sky’s case, it is too much to ask!
Will not recommend Sky services to anyone in the UK!
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2017-03-08
- Comments
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Absolutely horrific product and service, broadband offers 10mbps for around 5 minutes before internet completely drops, have to reset router 30+ times per day just to be able to use internet for a few minutes, engineer visited and explained there were no hardware issues so he was unable to assist, as problems persist called sky again who explained they acknowledge they're service is faulty however will now charge £50 engineer fee as we aren't renewing contract with them.
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
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- 2016-10-29
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Very very poor broadband. Came to sky as no Virgin in this building (and yet available across the street)! Initially ok, slow compared to what I was used to (from 50 mbps to 4). Then no internet, dropped connection for hours or days. Can't even watch a half hour show without it dropping. Hours and hours spent with customer services. Credit to them they did their very best but they never got to the bottom of the problem. So glad to be moving back to Virgin territory.
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2015-03-02
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Odd to be so dissatisfied with so many high markings, but Sky are so expensive, why shouldn't their broadband speed be good?
I am disappointed with Sky because they are massively more expensive than (say) BT Vision, and only after I had cancelled my contract did they offer a discount. In fact, before I left, they wanted me to pay £199 to replace a two year old box that had stopped working!
Not only that, but despite having two weeks left to run (two weeks I have paid for I might add) Sky have crippled my broadband speed, and disabled most of the functionality of my Sky+ box.
Nice touch Sky, especially after six years 'together'!
Au revoir.
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2019-02-19
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2023-05-02
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I could write a novel about how utterly terrible my experiences with Sky Broadband have been on every level. The short version is that I have been without internet for 42 days (and counting) with still no explanation or any indication of when the issue will be resolved, despite countless phone calls with their advisors. Avoid Sky like the plague.
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- Cambridge
- Reviewing
- Sky
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- 2017-10-30
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- cambridgeshire
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2016-07-21
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Regardless of published speeds of the Sky Fibre service, the low spec router negates any benefit as it is not fit for purpose. Basically, it is not capable of providing a modern WiFi service. To compound the issue, SKY has made it impossible for a customer to use their own router. Bottom line, do not waste your money on this service as you will be disappointed.
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- Cambridgeshire
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2018-09-21
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First the good points. With the exception of one breakdown for 5 days at the very beginning of my contract, my internet has worked solidly for months.
That's the end of the good points. The speed is nothing close to what they told me it would be. It is the slowest broadband I have ever had out of every available provider in the UK.
As for customer service; Sky are, the most complicated, ambiguous, greedy, arbitrary company I have ever dealt with in my life. The customer service advisors make it up as they go along, and after 20 years of being an on off customer, I must have spoken to around 200 different advisors, (usually regarding billing issues. Oh yes, check your bills as the price is never the price with Sky, the quote is never what you pay, they refuse to honour their deals and make cancelling an expensive nightmare)I have never once been told the same thing twice.
Sky have one single objective; taking as much money from as many people as they possibly can. Please avoid this greedy corporation, unless you enoy having unagreed amounts of money taken from your bank account, as they make paying in any other way impossible. They are obsessed with direct debits, and I know why. It's because they want to control how much they take.
I have never had a problem with any other provider and always kept up to date, and even ahead with my bills. Skys greedy protocol, their insistence on the dd form of payment have made this impossible. So I am in the dreaded cycle of having my services restricted every month. When this happens and you call them, there is NO option to speak to a human being. You are greeted by a cheerful robot saying "before you can speak to an advisor, all you need to do is clear the outstanding amount". If this "outstanding amount" is the issue you are calling about, good luck. Because you can NOT speak to anyone about it. To say it's infuriating is an understatement. Please avoid this disgusting, money obsessed company for the sake of your sanity.
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- cambuslang
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- Sky
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- 2012-11-13
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we are in an unfortunate location - but we are avereaging 0.43mgb which is way below what we were advised we should get - really slow and on/off need to find a faster supplier up here
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- Cambuslang
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2009-08-31
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Very slow download speeds, i'm getting 1Mb most of the time. When I first joined i got 2Mb, that dropped to 1.6Mb and now only 1Mb download for the unlimited broadband package at £15 per month.
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- Cannock England
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2010-11-17
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Had Sky broadband since christmas last year first few months were ok not bad speed but for last 6 months i have had problems with noisy phone line limited or no service on my broadband and nobody at sky is capable of sorting it out. I would not recommend them to anbody go with virgin sky has very poor service no customer service skills and they dont care once they got your money. I cancelled my direct debit and now putting my Brand New HD Box EBay to get back some of the costs of phone calls and days off to sort this problem out.
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- Canterbury
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2019-01-07
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TIME TO LEAVE ..... costs keep going up, speeds and reliability going down. Requested my code and am off after 10 years or so. Sky your service isn’t worth the money, even if it was half price I would walk away. Even the sky tv box has lost the will to keep looking for the WiFi. I can’t tell you how bad the service is. It’s 2019 we need a reliable service.
Wake up Sky
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- Canterbury
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2015-07-28
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I can't even comment on speed or reliability because we requested internet in May of 2015, and just now on July 28th has Sky finally gotten a line put in at our house. It has been a nightmare, and I haven't been able to see my new husband's face in two months.
Matt requested a Sky connection in May, and it was going to take them over 15 days to get a tech out to set up a line to our new townhouse which just finished construction. He had the appointment set for the day after he returned from our wedding in America, and let them know that while he was away in the states to please contact him by email. There was no contact and he returned and waited on his appointment day. No one showed up.
Turns out they called his UK phone instead of emailed to let us know that because the Counsel changed our post code from 8PY to 8PZ they couldn't set us up in their system. He asked why they didn't email like he asked, as he could have rescheduled. Their customer service shrugged it off as if they actually tried and we should just be happy with nothing.
Then he couldn't reschedule an appointment because they cancelled his order. He had to start a whole NEW account because of the change of letter of post code. Which means another 15 days to wait for a third party to connect a broad band line as they couldn't schedule until after the 24th of June. In the mean time, I'm stuck in America waiting on my Visa and not able to see my husband over Skype. I attempted to LiveChat in to their customer service (since I don't live in the UK yet and can't call) and their first chat representative just sent me a canned response and said they couldn't help and that I had the wrong department and disconnected the chat. I WORK in a call center and online chat help. You could have simply hit one transfer button and connected me to a representative who COULD help, rather than just throw you hands up and say screw it. Then I chatted back in and actually had one helpful rep who explained the third party system and that they have to set up appointments once a month with them? Which sounds rather silly considering Verizon Wireless over here state side can take care of everything in less than a week. Meanwhile, Sky is still more expensive than Talk Talk and not willing to budge or even apologize. Maybe because they have a monopoly on our post code for broadband at this point.
So the second appointment comes and goes. Matt took off work. They were supposed to "rush" our appointment. A tech DOES NOT SHOW UP. Sky does not call us. Matt phones Sky. They said "Open Reach should have contacted you" (the third party that hooks up lines). Sky told us they couldn't reschedule the booking until they heard back from Open Reach. So Matt calls them again on a Tuesday two days later, hoping they would have had contact. Sky STILL says nothing. They said they would call Matt on Friday with an update, they didn't. Matt called Sky, they said they would call on Tuesday. Tuesday comes and they said they need to CANCEL the whole order and redo it again, no faster time, no expedite and another two weeks of waiting. The phone rep (also a Matthew) said he understands the frustration and would speak to his manager about putting account credits on for the inconveniences. Nothing happened.
So after another two weeks of waiting, the technician arrived but there was a delay notice on the Sky Account. Matt called to see if things were OK. The phone rep Ashley said yes, and Matt inquired about the account credits. She said they "don't offer compensation for third party problems" which is a cop out excuse. He asked to speak to a manager, and they were "busy". No apology, no sympathy, no attempt to make things right by the customer. The manager was supposed to call when he was free. We are still waiting two days later.
I work in a customer service call center and this is bollocks. This kind of crap is piss poor customer service and unacceptable. I'm just waiting until I move in a week so I can call them and give them an earful, and switch companies as soon as Talk Talk is available in our area.
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- Canvey
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2016-12-14
- Comments
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Very erratic in the house. Upload and download speeds far below their adverts
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- Cardiff
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2021-06-10
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- CARDIFF
- Reviewing
- Sky
- Date
- 2018-02-11
- Comments
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Sky Broadband
Slower than Sticky the Stick Insect stuck on a sticky bun
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